[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 23:59:53 CET 2005

On 12/12/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 02:25 PM 12/12/2005 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >That looks good to me. Well, I actually try not to use cls as the first >argument to metaclass's new method, because there's so many classes >being tossed about at that point that I try to be more explicit. But I >don't consider that a common enough issue to be worth mentioning in PEP 8.

I usually use 'meta' as the first argument of a metaclass new or a metaclass classmethod, to avoid this particular bit of confusion.

...while I use 'mcl' for the same purpose (seems closer to me in spirit to 'cls' than 'meta' would be); Guido said he liked that, at the time (a couple of years ago) when he was following a talk of mine on metaclasses where I introduced this convention.

Alex

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